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I've got some colour pics taken of that when I can find them, that's going to be Trowell in Colour Pt 3!! Just a few for you Ian, these were taken in September 1966, using my brother's Hanimex again, this time it was loaded with Ilford colour film. 9F 92125 heading southwards with a long mixed freight, by the looks of it fitted. This was at the very top of Hest Bank which was between Carnforth and Lancaster, the water troughs started just behind where I was standing, it wasn't a good idea to stand too close to the troughs, the concrete slabs and longitudinal sleepers along the track form

Didn't 'Eminem' do a better version,'M##### F###### Wagner Rap Dude' or something similarly obnoxious. It's operatic arias that earwig me, I can never remember which operas they come from unless it's my favourite 'Madam Butterfly'.

Weren't a couple of posts deleted, why was that, I was going to respond but didn't have time, now they've gone, but I have the gist of it, the response to Trowell 2 sums it up really.

Carnforth was my big hang out in the late 60's as my uncle transferred to Morecambe when the GCR was facing closure. Because of his job as signal engineer based in the area, I had access to Carnforth shed whenever I liked. Most of my colour slides are taken at Carnforth shed, Hest Bank and Lancaster, they still seem in reasonable condition nearly 50 years and 10 house moves since I took them.

It wasn't like that in the evening, if I wanted a pint in the Rodney it was quicker to walk from Park Crescent than wait for an E1, the D9 was almost mythical, I'm sure it only ran every hour, if you were lucky.

Yes it was NER locos and memorabilia at the old York museum, I now live in the GER heartland and have succumbed to GER propaganda. I think that East Anglia was the first region to be totally dieselised and electrified,few GER locos have survived, perhaps that's why my favourite restored loco is the B12 on the NNR, LNER built but GER in spirit. The buses, trams and trolleybuses at Clapham were mainly from London Transport and were subsequently moved to a new museum at Covent Garden.

Just thought about it, looking at the colour light signals, hadn't Trowell Box been made redundant by Trent Power Box by 1975, if so, dad's pal must have worked there.

Back in the days of the 'Big Four' railway companies they had the foresight to preserve some of the important locomotives of the early years, such as GNR Single No 1, 'Gladstone', 'Hardwicke', etc etc. Most of these were stored at loco works such as Derby and not generally accessible to the public except on 'Open Days'. The exception was the LNER that opened a museum in an old goods shed adjacent to the station at York which I recall going round in the late 50's, it was a bit cramped and had a GNR/GER bias, but at least it was open to the public. In the 50's the BTC took 10 years to gather exh

You always were enthusiastic Rog, as an aircraft keen type how about my several hundred colour slides of the making of the 'Memphis Belle', or stumbling across and walking round the just arrived silver B-17 (to become 'Sally B') parked at the side of the road at a disused airfield called Duxford back in the 70's, or an SR-71 Blackbird doing a high speed, low level fuel dump and burn more or less over the top of my head at Mildenhall, it'll take forever to upload that lot!! I have more of Trowell Junction in colour, photo's of a very unique and special event taken in the early 70's and of anot

I've been digging out some of my old colour slides as you know, quite frankly, given the lack of interest and comments given to my photo's of Wilford Power Station and in particular Stanton Ironworks (not Trowell Moor Colliery again!!), I wasn't going to bother, but I found some of my early colour slides last night and thought that some of you might like to see them. Here's a taster, it's too sunny an afternoon to sit indoors fiddling about on a computer. July 1966, the Bradford to Skegness summer Saturday special and the last timetabled steam hauled passenger train into Nottingham Midland:-

The East Lancs is a great line, you can't beat the signal gantry at Bury Bolton Street:-

How not to treat a 1930's teak Gresley Buffet Car, this was the one used in the Harwich Boat Train set which had somehow found it's way to Cambridge station where I came across it in 1976. I think it may have been the one that found itself on the NNR, subsequently restored to it's full teak glory and used as a bar selling Woodfordes draught bitter, but now inexplicably repainted 'Custard and Cream' and doesn't appear to sell beer anymore. Sorry I haven't been on here recently but I've been so busy, this picture is one of my very large colour archive that I still haven't had time to copy and

Can anyone remember the ancient maroon rolling stock set that was stored in London Road carriage sidings during the mid to late 70's? It was only used for summer Saturday holiday trains to Skegness, usually hauled by a pair of Class 20's and I think for those Saturday cheap excursions that BR were fond of at the time. I read somewhere then that it was the last original set of maroon coaches on BR, would you know this Mel. They were in terrible external condition, particularly the roofs, the grey paint was peeling off in large patches revealing bare metal, God knows what they were like inside,

If they get in quick enough with the bulldozers, the 'owners' could do a deal with UK Coal and use the rubble to fill in the shaft at Thoresby Colliery.

Ever since the place was sold by the Chaworth Musters family back in 1972 it's been a tale of woe and disaster for this wonderful house. I blame entirely the complete lack of action by the Local Authority concerned, whoever it is, to prevent this Grade 2 Listed Building from being subsequently stripped of it's historic interior and allowed to rot, that also goes for the gatehouse complex as well. Enforcement notices should have been served on the owners years ago, clearly it was never done by the useless, incompetent council, but whoever the owners are, they've clearly wanted the place destroy

I never said it was, you must be reading this differently mate, the US time must be effecting your brain old pal, or you have a hangover. The picture is of Stanton Ironworks with it's blast furnaces being very prominent in the centre as it says in the title, like I said you can make out Trowell Moor Colliery slagheaps in the bottom right foregound, they were being used at the time to dump waste from the ironworks blast furnaces, it may have closed in 1928 but some of the buildings and the spoil tips were still there in 1969, as are the grassed remains of the tips today. I grew up in the area i

He certainly is Catfan, keeping quiet then comes up with all this usefull stuff does our Chulla. I knew about the Meteor engines being down rated Merlins, the reason being that a bloke in the West Country obtained one of those fibreglass Spitfire replicas and decided to make it a ground runner for fetes etc etc. The cost of a real Merlin put one of those out the window and he obtained a Meteor instead from redundant military stock, relatively cheaply. It took some fitting, then he fitted out the cockpit with original components and ended up with a very cool looking and sounding Spitfire he w

I go along with that, it really is a superb picture. My old man sneaked a camera along with him on his push through Europe, he upgraded it to a captured German Zeiss and made up 35mm film in his battalion radio truck. He was lucky enough to be senior NCO at medium artillery field headquarters and got away with many things. When he took his rolls of film to be developed on Alfreton Road on his return, the whole lot mysteriously vanished in the shop, I think the photographer who ran the shop was lucky to escape with his life. I have a few photo's he managed to keep, I think this is an official

I came across this one I must have taken about 1969, it just shows you how much filth was dumped on to the surrounding areas by the place, I must have captured this one at the moment the coke ovens were dropped, that smoke really was sulphurous and somewhere under that was the sports field, I recall choking with the fumes during hockey matches I played there. Note the remains of the spoil heaps to Trowell Moor Colliery in the right foreground, the centre being dug out and filled with blast furnace slurry. You can just make out the Derbyshire Hills in the background, you could quite clearly

I've just been up into the loft, it's in a bit of a mess since they put in our new central heating system last October. I put all my slides in circular Hannimex carousels, these contain 120 slides each and I've got rather a lot of them!! It's difficult to go through everything without tidying the place up first and even though each box has a description, the writing has faded somewhat. I have to clamber over Hornby Dublo, Dinky toys and some interesting documents re Wollaton Vale in the 1920's, apart from that this bloody illness won't go away and I feel terrible, things will have to wait for

Of course, I've been there, but given the financial state of affairs at B&Q it might not be there for much longer, the small stores are fairly safe, the mega stores aren't. Not much Nottingham stuff in this box, it's full of odds and ends, all my real stuff is cataloged and in the loft, I have found a nice colour slide taken inside Nottingham Shed roundhouse in the 1960's, I'll save that for when I'm more organised, and for you aircraft enthusiasts a photo of the Queens Birthday Flypast in the mid 70's taken from my garden in Witham and featuring 3 Vulcans, 4 Buccaneers and 2 Phantoms and

Even less reason to vote for the Tory scum then. Sorry, was that politically incorrect.

Hi, I apologise for not being on here much recently but I've got a new job at the B & Q garden centre, which, in relation to my other charitable, voluntary works, has kept me very busy, it's also THAT time of year up at the allotment. I should be flogging away at the garden centre today but I've come down with a really savage dose of gastro enteritis which has laid me low for the past few days. Last weekend, I managed at last to set up my PC and my all singing and dancing scanner which allows me to upload slides and even sort out my old black and white negatives properly. I've got thousa

''Sorry about the leaking roof and the smell of smoke, must get those chimney's unblocked, at least the letters didn't fall off this time when you tried to get in the door, must fix that some time. Now then sir, how about a little something for the weekend, step this way and we'll show you the little gems that we have awaiting your service out in the back.'' ''Now then sir, how about our little red runabout over there, plenty of window ventilation for those hot, summer evening Mystery Tours, why do we call them that sir, well, it's a mystery how we ever get any of these coaches out of the g

I think you'll find that Bamber was, every episode in fact until that young upstart JP took over.